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Convicted of insulting a government official .
On January 24, 2023, a trial to commute Sergei's sentence was held in the Kamenets District Court. Judge Oksana Shkel rejected the Correctional Institution's motion to transfer him to a penal colony.
According to human rights activists, he will be released in the fall of 2025.
According to the investigation, Alexander Pugach from October 2020 to March 2022 insulted the head of state, as well as government officials, including the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus, in connection with the performance of their official duties in Telegram.
Judge Ruslan Tsaruk appointed, in addition to imprisonment, compensation for moral damage in the amount of 10 000 BYN and 3 200 BYN.
An appeal hearing was held on March 31, 2023. The verdict entered into force.
According to calculations, he was supposed to be released in the spring of 2026 .
Convicted for participating in protests. It is known that Elena was detained in June, but released on bail, she was at large until the trial.
3.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral
2.5 years of restriction of liberty without a referral.
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In early September, the Telegram channel of the volunteer initiative "Lists of Detainees" published information about the detention of an entire family : Yan, Anastasia and Ales Papkovich. Anastasia was released. And Yan and Ales were transferred to pretrial detention center No. 1. During the detention, Ales' phone and equipment were taken away. As a result, one photo from the 2020 march was found. For it, the guy was given 2 years in prison.
Ales has been interested in music since childhood, - says the brother of the political prisoner. - He knows many Belarusian performers, played with some of them. For example, he performed with cover bands in Minsk clubs, performed with the group "D-Major" as a violinist. The last two years before his arrest were especially creative for Ales - he wrote several lyrics for songs, music for them, made recordings. Ales sings in Belarusian.
10.06.2024 released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
In early September, the Telegram channel of the volunteer initiative "Lists of Detainees" published information about the detention of an entire family: Yan, Anastasia, and Ales Papkovich.
Special forces stormed Yan's apartment. During the arrest, the officers fired a shot from an automatic weapon and wounded the dog, which had started barking at them.
Yan spent a month in a KGB pretrial detention center, where he was tortured and unable to walk. BT reports portrayed Yan as a mercenary planning to go to Ukraine. It is known that Yan pleaded not guilty at his trial. One of the witnesses stated that "they pressured him, and he signed whatever they told him." As evidence of Yan's guilt, the investigation presented his private correspondence with his wife, as well as with friends who, according to investigators, serve in Kalinovsky's regiment in Ukraine.
Yan worked as a cash collector at Belgazprombank.
In March 2024 and April 2025, Yana was convicted twice under the article “malicious disobedience to the legal demands of the colony administration,” and in total, another year of imprisonment was added to her existing sentence.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Stepan is 23 years old, he is a resident of Novolukoml. He was accused of having made extremist inscriptions on the pipeline of the Lukoml power station in March of this year, and two months later painted images of white-red-white and blue-yellow flags on the surface of an artillery piece installed on the territory of a military burial in the village of Starie Lavki of the Chashniki district.
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Natalia was arrested in the fall of 2021 as part of the "Zeltser case" for online comments; the charges were later amended. In August 2022, she was found guilty of leaving a comment in the Telegram chats "Typical Belarus" and "Tea with Raspberry Jam," which, according to investigators, "humiliated the authority, honor, and dignity of" Lukashenko.
She was released in March 2023, having fully served her sentence as imposed by the court.
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He was the director and head coach of the branch of the kickboxing and Thai boxing club "Patriot" in Borisov.
Sentenced to 2 months of arrest for posting a caricature of A.G. Lukashenko on the VKontakte social network on August 17, 2020, which allegedly "in its semantic content reflected a negative assessment of the personality" of A.G. Lukashenko, as well as "sharp criticism of the socio-political situation". According to the expert who conducted the "forensic cultural examination", the caricature discredited the state power in the person of A.G. Lukashenko.
After his release, Nikolai was brought to administrative responsibility in May 2023 for storing Belsat's publication on a page on the Odnoklassniki social network. Nikolai did not admit guilt. He was sentenced to 10 days of arrest.
He was convicted for posting a comment about police officers in a public chat in September 2021.
Convicted of insulting Lukashenko A.G.
On 03/01/2024 he was released after fully serving the sentence imposed by the court.
2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
According to the prosecution , from May to November 2021, Alexander "posted offensive comments about Lukashenko on various Internet resources."
The man also left offensive texts in obscene language regarding the Chairman of the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus Ivan Tertel, the Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission Lyudmila Yermoshina, deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus, as well as a prosecutor.
According to human rights activists , he will be released at the end of May 2025.